Gym Motivation

Transcript

This is to listen to before you crush it in the gym or your home gym, wherever it is that you are working out today. Firstly, I just want to say that I am so proud of you for showing up for yourself. No matter how long you have to work out today, no matter how you're feeling, maybe you're super pumped or more likely if you're listening to something like this, you need a little extra motivation, a little extra shove.

Maybe you're not quite in the mood to work out yet, but you're here. You've made the commitment to yourself and you're listening to this to get yourself amped up and that is more than we can say for so many people. This is the first step, showing up for yourself, making the commitment, making the decision to go ahead and do something positive for your body.

I hope that you're listening to this as you're already in your workout clothes. If not, put it on speaker and start getting dressed. Maybe you're already in the gym locker room.

Maybe you're doing a warm-up on a treadmill. Maybe you're driving to the gym right now. Whatever it is, again, I want you to know this is the first step.

This is what counts. It doesn't really matter what you achieve in there. You don't have to hit a PR today.

You don't have to work out for two hours. You just have to show up because consistency is pretty much the most important thing when it comes to nourishing your body, to grounding yourself, to getting into and connected to your physicality. So when you're working out today, I want you to try and be really present.

This will help in a number of ways. It will help you get the most out of your workout in terms of a grounding in-body experience and it will also help you to make that mind-muscle connection a little deeper. I don't want you distracted by what anyone else is doing.

I don't want you looking over at that hot girl who always wears the tight yoga pants. I want you focused. Close your eyes if you must and if it's safe to.

Don't get too distracted by podcasts or music. Just turn your attention inward and really try and focus on making that brain-body connection with each and every rep. Make your time count.

Quality over quantity. You can do a hundred bicep curls whilst distracted and listening to something or reading through work emails with your other hand and they won't count anywhere near as much as ten high-quality focused ones in which you're breathing into the motion, breathing out stress and really making that connection with yourself. I want you, if you need a little bit of extra motivation, to think about my body.

To think about how I crafted it through some quite intense adversity. How I make the time for myself. How even as I've aged I've prioritized my health and I want you to use me as inspiration when it comes to those difficult moments.

When it comes to pushing for perhaps a PR or just doing one last rep. This is something I want you to incorporate into your workout today and I'm going to assume that you don't listen to this recording every time. But every so often, perhaps once a week or every two weeks, you should be doing reps to failure.

This is pushing yourself out of that comfort zone and you can think of this in a femdom mentality if that serves you. I want you stretching yourself. I want you finding your limit.

Progress will not be made from just going up to the point that you can handle and never beyond. Let's see where you're at. Let's see where your body starts to fatigue, starts to fail.

So today, but not every day, I want you going to failure. Do your regular reps and on the last set, go until you cannot go anymore for whichever muscle group it is that you are doing. Now of course, if you are doing splits of upper body and lower body, you can do this more than once a week or more than once every two weeks.

But you don't want to be exhausting your central nervous system. Another important thing to remember with gym motivation is that deload weeks are crucial. You cannot just push, push, push indefinitely.

Part of muscle building, part of body recovery is that rest and respite period. These things exist within nature, with winter and the hibernation state. These things even exist within your orgasm with the refractory period.

It is necessary to deload and to rest. But today, if you're listening to this, you're going to push for me. If you need some extra motivation in the gym beyond going to failure, you can imagine me stood over you and how impressed I would be if you did just one more rep, if you added just 2.5 pounds to that bar.

I always say that those 2.5 pound plates or perhaps a 5 pound plate, if you don't have the smaller ones, are probably the most important plates and weights in the gym. Everyone wants to jump up 5, 10, 25 pounds on their lifts. Don't be afraid of making that incremental progress.

Forward is forward. Action is action. It's better than inaction.

And by being ready to work out today, like I say, you're doing better than so many other people. But ultimately, this is not a competition between you and others, not even between you and me. This is a competition between you and yourself.

Seeing if you can push yourself a little bit harder, not every day, but each week or each month consistently. Seeing if you can show up for yourself consistently. Seeing if you can lean in to nourishing yourself so that you may better serve me.

I don't like measurable pets. I don't like measurable subs. I want your body coursing with endorphins.

I want your body coursing with testosterone. I want you pumped up. I want you successful.

I want you healthy so that you may continue to work for and serve me. There's some extra motivation should you need it. So take these thoughts into your gym session.

Have a positive one. Make that mind-body connection. Extend your time under tension should you need an extra challenge.

Slow things down. Be intentional. Make solid, consistent progress.

Know that I'm proud of you. Know that I am your source of inspiration and motivation. Go to failure.

Rest. Release. Good boy.

Go crush it for me.